Whiskered Screech-owl, Portal AZ. There are only a few remote mountain canyons in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico where this species can be found in the US.

Pine Grosbeak (female). Fryeburg, ME.

Snowy Egret before the storm. Estero, FL.

Olympic National Park, WA. The fog finally lifted, revealing this Columbian Black-tailed doe.

Varileaf Cinquefoil. Olympic National Park, WA

Snowy Egret, Estero, FL.

"...the earth is a continually sensuous thing, out there where one can see it with minimal interference." - Merrill Gilfillan, "Magpie Rising." Sunrise, Badlands National Park, SD.

Black-tailed Rattlesnake, Portal, AZ.

Snowshoe Hare, Olympic National Park, WA. Yes, that's the photographer reflected in his eye.

Common Sunflower and Foxtail Barley, native prairie plants, on the Stronghold Unit of Badlands National Park, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.

Desert Cottontail. Joder, Nebraska.

Badlands National Park, SD.

Black-capped Chickadee, Freedom, NH.

Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona.

Ruddy Turnstones, Estero, FL.

Canada Jay, White Mountain National Forest, NH.

Chiricahua Fox Squirrel. Portal, AZ. Normally shy, it is a subspecies of Mexican Fox Squirrel, found in the US only in the remote mountains of southeastern Arizona.

Summer Tanager, Portal, AZ.

Black-tailed Jackrabbit. Big Bend National Park, TX.

Apache, AZ.

All This Warmth of the Sun. Fryeburg, ME.